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Soul Mountain
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Soul Mountain

We are reading Nobel Prize winner Gao Xinjiang’s novel Soul Mountain. Learn more »

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Start Date: 6 Apr 2018

End Date: 1 Jun 2018

The Book We’re Reading

Soul Mountain

Gao Xingjian

From inside dust jacket cover of 2000 English translation: In 1983 Chinese playwright, critic, fiction writer, and painter Gao Xingjian (pronounced gow shing-jen) was diagnosed with lung cancer and faced imminent death. But six weeks later, a second ex …

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About the Author

Gao Xingjian

Too much analytical thinking, too much logic, too many meanings! Life has no logic, so why does there have to be logic to explain what it means? Also, what is logic? I think I need to break away from analytical thinking, this is the cause of all my anx …

Complementary Reading and Additional Media

Gao Xingjian’s Nobel lecture “The Case for Literature” 

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Soul Mountain, by Gao Xingjian - Reading Group Meeting

Soul Mountain, by Gao Xingjian - Reading Group Meeting

1 Jun 2018   12:00 pm - 2:00 pm MDT
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Join us for the third and final meeting of the Readers Underground group dedicated to Nobel Prize laureate Gao Xingjian's novel, Soul Mountain. This will be our first meeting discussing the novel as a whole, so even if you missed the previous two meetings, you are welcome to join us.  
Soul Mountain – Conversation 2

Soul Mountain – Conversation 2

4 May 2018   12:00 pm - 1:30 pm MDT
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We will begin our discussion of Gao Xingjian's novel, Soul Mountain—focusing on chapters 1 to 42. (Our next talk, on June 1, will complete the book.) To join us, sign up for Readers Underground, then RSVP by commenting on the topic for this meeting in our forum. We will be meeting [...]

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